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jueves, 7 de junio de 2012

Kindness Boomerang

We are about to finish this school year full of hard work, disappointments, uncertainty and fight, but also of fun and unforgettable moments. I want to say goodbye to all my students and workmates raising my voice and asking for a ray of hope with a song and a video that we'll let you believe in the power of kindness and solidarity, even though it's just for five minutes. But as I can't help thinking as a teacher, I'll take advantage of this song to work on nasal consonants /m/, /n/and /ŋ/ which are pronounced letting the air go out through the nose with your mouth closed.

Spanish students find it especially difficult to produce the nasal sound /ŋ/ which is represented by the spellings 'ng' as in 'sing' and 'nk' as in 'sink'. To produce this sound you have to stop the air flow through the mouth by pressing the back of your tongue against the soft palate. You can click here to see a short video that'll help you pronounce this sound correctly.

Paying attention to these sounds, listen to the song "One day" by the American reggae singer Matisyahu.

1 comentario:

About the song, we usually think that do something in te correct way is not really important beacause the rest of people don't do it. In my opinion, this videoclip means that the good actions of a little group could be copy or extended to the rest of the world.